PH consists of delivering liquid nutrition
into the blood stream of a patient by way of a needle and catheter placed in
a major artery such as the carotid (in the neck). There are risks. A
woman can develop potentially fatal blood clots and sometimes there is
fatty infiltration in the placenta which can kill the baby. There is also risk of infection. I have a friend who had h.g. and was on PH. She picked up a germ through the i.v. line which resulted in endocarditis and a uterine infection which eventually caused the death of her baby girl at 18 weeks. Also, if this type
of feeding is employed over an extended period of time the digestive
system has a tendency to become sluggish from lack of use. gravidarum.
To further illustrate the somber seriousness of h.g., I read
an article (Neurosis: a Ms Diagnosis, by Janet Titchener Bogen, in
Perspectives in Biololgy and Medicine, Winter 1994, v37n2p263-271) in
which Janet Bogen had a Hickman catheter (a tube) surgically placed
through the wall of her chest and into her heart where a computerized pump
delivered lipids (fats) and glucose (a monosaccharide) directly into
her blood stream. Do you know of anyone who must endure such treatments in order to survive a pregnancy? Indeed, for how many women is pregnancy a survival issue?
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